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Editor’s Weekend Calendar Picks, March 1-4
Join us this First Friday for the first solo exhibition of the year at the Bunker Center for the Arts. The exhibition, Byron Anway’s “Gatherings,” will feature several large scale oil and water color paintings in the South galleries. Byron Anway is an artist, educator, and musician living and working in Lincoln, NE. Byron earned an MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a BA from Luther College.
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Critically Acclaimed Show of Cuban Printmaker Stops at Kemper Museum
After critically acclaimed stops at UCLA’s Fowler Museum and New York’s El Museo del Barrio, “Nkame: A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayón (1967-1999)” is now on view at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. In seductively powerful compositions, Ayón magnetizes with bold, yet ethereal, mask-like human and animal forms that share an enigmatic narrative, most often related to human questioning or suffering.
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Emerging Artists in the Spotlight: Foxes in the Fortress
What’s an emerging artist in Kansas City to do after art school? Caranne Camarena, like so many of her fellow Kansas City Art Institute painting majors circa 2012, had to decide: Stay or go. Return to hometown XYZ? Embark for coastal art capitals or Chicago? Maybe grad school? Stick it out in KC with a group of friends and splash into the frothy local scene? About halfway through her senior year, Camarena and her non-artist parents were kicking around ideas for real estate investment.
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‘An Opportunity to Catapult the Airport Well Into the 21st Century’
Barring another City Council revolt like the one that sent a publicly approved plan for a new airport into a tailspin last fall, Kansas City will be getting a new airport designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). SOM is one of the oldest and largest architectural, urban planning and engineering firms in the nation, with an airport track record second to none. The proposed $1 billion single terminal will replace the three existing terminals built more than four decades ago.
